Draft-equalizer.



more STATES HENRY CARPENTER, OF EDMOND, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,717, dated July 16,1901. Application filed May 13,1901. Serial No. 59,960. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, HENRY CARPENTER, of Edmond, in the county ofOklahoma, Territory of Oklahoma, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Draft-Equalizers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is an improvement in draftequalizers, and has for an objectto provide a simple novel construction by which to avoid the side draftwhere the draft of the team is unequal on opposite sides of the tongueand where the draft of the vehicle or implement is harder on one sidethan on the other; and the invention consists in certain novelconstructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention embodied in afour horse equalizer; and Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views, respectively,of a three-horse equalizer and a two-horse equalizer.

The broad idea of my invention common to the several constructions is apusher operating in rear of the evener arranged to receive the draft ofsome or all of the horses, movable at its rear end alongside the tongueand having its front end supported laterally to the tongue, so the draftexerted on the pusher will be applied to one side of the tongue.

In Fig. l the tongue A has the evener l3 pivoted to it at a point aboutone-third the length of the evener distant from one end thereof, thelong arm of the lever having a doubletree O pivoted to it, while theother doubletree D is movable at its center along the tongue, so one ofthe horses hitched to the doubletreeD will pull on one side and theother horse on the other side of thetongue.

F, around which passes a line G, which may be of wire, rope, or chain,and whose ends are connected one to the doubletree D and the other tothe long arm of the evener at about one-third the distance from C to E.By this construction the draft exerted on the doublewith the doubletree.

tree D operates to push on the outer end of the short arm of the evenerand also equalizes the draft of the doubletree C by the connection ofthe line G with the long arm of the lever.

In the construction shown in Fig. 2 one horse is connected with theouter end of the long arm of the evener and the doubletree is connectedby a rod or connection H with the rear end of the pusher I, the rod Iand roller 1 of which are connected with the short arm of the evener andoperate substantially like the corresponding parts in the constructionshown in Fig. 1 and before described. In both Figs. 1 and 2 the lateralsupport for the front end of the pusher-bar is provided by the short armof the evener.

In Fig. 3, which is a two-horse evener or evener Where the draft isarranged equally on opposite sides of the tongue, I employ for thepusher a bar J, extending laterally from the tongue on the cutter sideof a mower and in other cases on the side on which the draft.

is heaviest. This bar may be suitably braced and has pivoted to it nearits outer end the front end of the pusher-bar K, provided at its rearend with the roller L and connected at such end by a rod M or otherconnection By this construction, as by those shown in Figs. 1 and 2, thedraft is exerted laterally to the tongue and may be so applied as toavoid side draft.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the tongue, the evener, a pusher-bar connected atits front end with one arm of the evener laterally to the tongue andprovided at its rear end with a roller moving alongside the tongue, alink connected at one end with the rear end of the pusher and having apulley at its swinging end, and a draft-line passed around said pulleysubstantially as set forth.

2. The improved equalizer herein described comprising the tongue, theevener pivoted thereto and having the long and the short arms, thedoubletree connected with the long arm, the doubletree slidable alongthe tongue, the pusher-bar connected at one end to the short arm andextending thence rearwardly and inwardly and movable at its rear end ISOalongside the tongue, a pulley connected with the rear end of thepusher-bar and a line passed around said pulley and connected at one endto the long evener-arm and at its other end to the slidable doubletreesubstantially as set forth. q

3. A draft-equalizer comprising the tongue, the evener, and thepusher-bar connected at its front end with one arm of the evenerlaterally to the tongue and movable at its rear end along the tongue,draft devices movable along the tongue,and connections between the rearend of the pusher-bar and said draft devices, such connection with thedraft devices being arranged overthe tongue, substantially as set forth.

4:. In a draft-equalizer, the combination of the tongue, the evener, thepusher-bar connected at its front end with one arm of the evener, apulley connected with the rear end of the pusher-bar, a draft-linepassed around said pulley, and the draft devices and evener connectedwith the opposite ends of said line, substantially as set forth.

5. Adraft-equalizer,comprising the tongue, the pusher-bar having alateral support at its front end, a roller carried by the rear end ofthe pusher-bar and bearing against the tongue, and means for applyingthe draft to the pusher, substantially as set forth.

HENRY CARPENTER,

Witnesses:

JOHN M. ANGLEA, O, H. PROFFITT.

